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Thomas Paine’s *American Crisis* was a series of pamphlets published between 1776 and 1783. These writings aimed to galvanize support for the American Revolution by articulating the colonists' cause as a struggle against tyranny and injustice. Paine’s powerful prose, often employing biblical imagery...

The Novanglus Papers are a series of pamphlets published in 1774 by John Adams. These writings responded to calls for colonial independence and defended the colonists’ existing relationship with Great Britain. Adams argued that Parliament possessed legitimate authority derived from its hereditary po...

The Rights of the Colonists is a 18th-century pamphlet authored by Samuel Adams. It articulates colonial arguments regarding inherent rights, asserting principles like liberty and property ownership. This document played a crucial role in shaping early American political thought and directly impacte...

James Otis’s *Rights of the British Colonies Asserted and Proved* (1764) presented a powerful legal argument against Parliament's authority to tax the American colonies. The pamphlet asserted that taxation without representation violated fundamental rights and was therefore unlawful. Otis’s work sig...

A Full Vindication of the Measures of the Congress is a political pamphlet written by Alexander Hamilton and published in 1774, when he was still a young student in colonial New York. It defended the First Continental Congress and its program of economic resistance against criticism from the Loyalis...

Chesapeake is a 1978 historical novel by American author James A. Michener. Through several fictional families, it traces settlement and social change around the Chesapeake Bay from the colonial era into the twentieth century, addressing land use, religion, slavery, war, maritime life, and environme...

Henry Popple was an English cartographer active in the early 18th century who is best known for creating "A Map of the British Empire in America." Surveyed and published in 1733 with the support of the Board of Trade and Plantations, it was one of the largest and most detailed maps of North America...

The American Crisis, No. 2 is a pamphlet written by Thomas Paine and published in 1777 during the American Revolutionary War, part of a series of Crisis papers that began with the famous December 1776 essay opening "These are the times that try men's souls." The second pamphlet addressed military an...

Claude Joseph Sauthier (1736–1802) was a French-born surveyor and cartographer who spent much of his career working in the American colonies. He produced highly detailed maps for British military authorities, focusing on the provinces of New York and North Carolina. Sauthier's surveys conducted in t...

A Different Flesh is a 1988 fix-up novel by Harry Turtledove, assembled from linked stories set between the early colonial period and the late twentieth century. Its point of divergence is that Homo erectus, called “sims” in the narrative, occupies the Americas instead of Homo sapiens before Europea...

The Seven Cities of Gold, also called the Seven Cities of Cíbola, are legendary wealthy cities described in Spanish colonial stories about lands to the north of New Spain. The legend helped motivate exploration in the sixteenth century, including Francisco Vázquez de Coronado's 1540 expedition. Coro...